Ep. 85 – The Life and Art of Bob Thompson
October 28, 2021
Listen to this conversation with Diana K. Tuite, the Katz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Colby College Museum of Art. Her exhibition Bob Thompson: This House Is… READ MORE
Tag: Painting
The Bold Colors of Paul Gauguin
June 11, 2019
Marcia B. Hall — Paul Gauguin sought to express his sense of spirituality in his paintings. Weary with the materialism of sophisticated European society, he escaped to the South Seas… READ MORE
Art + Science: Jennifer Raab on Frederic Church
January 20, 2016
Jennifer Raab — Years ago, standing in front of Frederic Edwin Church’s The Heart of the Andes (1859) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I wondered, why is this painting… READ MORE
On Corita Kent and the Language of Pop
September 2, 2015
Corita Kent and the Language of Pop is an exhibition opening this Thursday, September 3rd, at the Harvard Art Museums. The Boston Globe recently published a piece in which Cate… READ MORE
Art + Science: Michelle Foa on Georges Seurat
June 2, 2015
Today we are excited to introduce you to a new series on our our Yale University Press Art & Architecture blog: Art + Science. Posts featured here will occupy that… READ MORE
Negative Rhythm: Intersections Between Arp, Kandinsky, Münter, and Taeuber
June 12, 2014
Bibiana K. Obler— Here’s an assignment. Read my book. Then read the following excerpt from a letter from Wassily Kandinsky to Hans Arp, dated November 1912: The disharmoniousness (one might… READ MORE
The Eye Man: An Interview with Richard Estes by David Ebony
May 22, 2014
David Ebony— Richard Estes is one of a very few painters from the original Photorealist movement of the 1960s and early ’70s who remains true to the precepts of the… READ MORE
One Year Later: Clare Elliott reflects on Forrest Bess and Seeing Things Invisible
April 19, 2014
Clare Elliott – One year after its opening at the Menil Collection, Houston, Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible has made its third appearance, at the Neuberger Art Museum at SUNY, Purchase…. READ MORE
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